Death blow to Jim Crow : the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights / / Erik S. Gellman
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| Autore: |
Gellman Erik S
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| Titolo: |
Death blow to Jim Crow : the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights / / Erik S. Gellman
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 323.1196/073 |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans - Segregation - History - 20th century |
| African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century | |
| Race discrimination - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century | |
| African Americans - History - 1877-1964 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations History 20th century |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Labor's triumph and the "black magna carta" in the Chicago region, 1936-1939 -- Negro youth strike back against the "Virginia way" in Richmond, 1937-1940 -- Civilization has taken a holiday : violence and security in the nation's capital -- Interlude : black and white, red, and over? : the Congress splits in Washington -- Finding the north star in New York : home front battles during the Second World War -- The world's "firing line" : South Carolina's postwar internationalism -- Conclusion : gone with what wind?. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a ""second emancipation"" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as nece |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Death blow to Jim Crow |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908845-8-9 |
| 979-88-9313-389-9 | |
| 1-4696-0196-6 | |
| 0-8078-6993-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970357303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.